![]() ![]() Some more history on Floorp’s beginnings: and here’s the cute development team: Prough I’m glad he did now since Floorp has now become my default browser. It’s what I did initially since I was using Firefox at the time, but a Ghacks user called “owl” drew my attention to it. You’ll need this translator to read it though since it’s written in Japanese: ĭon’t forget though that you can install more than one browser on Windows. ![]() To avoid straying off-topic since Martin’s article is about Waterfox and not Floorp, there’s an interesting article on the Floorp blog regarding Waterfox: entitled “Differences between Floorp and Firefox/Chromium browsers”. Alta Vista has fallen by the wayside and Google is the dominant search engine player. I thought it was wonderful, but my colleagues thought it was crap and preferred to use Alta Vista. ![]() But in looking around for info in the fledgling Internet I came across a new search engine by the name of Google. I was supporting Windows 98 which was Microsoft’s latest itineration at that time. But the more users that try it, the more it becomes known.īack in 1997 I worked at a call center in Amsterdam called Stream International. Well, I suppose it’s like every new project: it takes a while to get started. Waterfox G5.0 is a major new release of the Firefox-based browser that introduces several new features and improvements. Users may also notice reduced CPU utilization when software decoding is used. Waterfox for macOS uses the low power mode for fullscreen videos on YouTube, Twitch and other sites, which reduces power consumption. Linux users benefit from improved WebGL performance and reduced power consumption. Waterfox has the video overlay feature enabled for Intel GPUs on Windows to reduce power usage during video playback. On Linux, users may change the behavior in the browser's settings. The browser follows the system settings on Windows 11, which are found under Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars. Scrollbars do not take up space on Linux and Windows anymore by default. Waterfox supports the Snap Layout and new scrollbar styles features of Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system. Noise suppression and auto-gain have improved significantly as well in the release. Waterfox will crash less often due to low-memory on the system, thanks to improvements integrated in to the Firefox code by Mozilla. For now, support is limited to YouTube on macOS 11 and newer with HGR compatible screens. Share options are now found under the file menu in the browser, and HDR video is also supported on Macs. On Mac devices, support for images containing ICC v4 profiles is now enabled. The browser's built-in PDF viewer supports form filling in the new version, and Picture-in-Picture mode supports video captions and subtitles now for select sites. Waterfox supports the AVIF format and hardware accelerated AV1 video decoding, the latter only on certain Windows systems with supported graphics processing units. Next to that, Waterfox's sandbox on Linux prevents access to the X Window System on Linux for web content.Īdditionally, "less restricted referrer policies" are now ignored to prevent privacy leaks, and the browser now supports the automatic updating "to HTTPS using HTTPS RR as Alt-Svc headers". Developers have improved web compatibilities as well. Waterfox G5.0 includes improved referrer tracking protection in Strict tracking protection mode and in private browsing mode. The release notes group most platform changes in the three groups security, media and operating systems. Waterfox G5.0 is based on Firefox ESR 102, which means that it supports the features of that release next to Waterfox-specific features. Most changes are made to the underlying platform. The official release notes list all major changes of the new release. Waterfox users may check the installed version by selecting Menu > Help > About Waterfox in the menu. Waterfox users who want to upgrade right away may download the latest version from the official project website to install it over the existing copy of the browser. The developer notes that the new version will roll out via automatic updates starting next week. ![]()
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